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how historians should draw, iv. 278.
showing only the bright side of, iv. 421.
extraordinary, generally exaggerated,
iii. 337.

Charing Cross, iii. 213.

Charity, Christian, v. 178.

- judicious distribution of, iii. 69

- Johnson's unbounded, ii. 30; iii. 69;
iv. 269, 269 n.; v. 219.

Charlemont, James, first Earl of, ii. 223,
341; iv. 220 n., 298, 450 n.
Charles the First, ii. 202; iii. 35; iv. 244.

the Second, iii. 215, 245; iv. 408.
- Edward, Prince, ii. 418 n., 419 n. See
Pretender.

the Fifth, celebration of his funeral
obsequies during his lifetime, iv. 102.
-the Twelfth of Sweden, i. 68; iv. 121.
Charlton, Dr., v. 129.

Charms, belief in, ii. 395, 395 n.
Chastity, ii. 57, 429; iv. 280 n.
Chatham, William, first Earl of, ii. 188,

215; ii. 190; iv. 223; v. 213, 214 n.
Chatsworth, iii. 126, 127 n.; iv. 60;
v. 272.

Chatterton, Thomas, his poems, iii. 415,
416; v. 13, 13 n.
Chedworth, Lord, v. 404.

Chemistry, Johnson's fondness for, iv.
272, 340 n.; v. 122.
Chester, iii. 134.

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope,
fourth Earl of, i. 23, 126, 157, 172 n.,
192 n., 244, 249 n., 254; ii. 199, 294 n.,
337, 361; iii. 203, 418, 472, 503;
iv. 219, 259, 296, 301, 448, 503; v.
53, 242.

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his admirable rule of conduct, ii. 384.
his Treatise on Health,' iii. 391.
Cheynel, Francis, Johnson's life of, ii. 283.
Children, treatment and education of, i.

14, 20, 38, 464; ii. 102, 332, 435; iii.
294, 393, 492 n.; iv. 256, 353, 379,
380.

China, wall of, iv. 125.

Chinese language, iv. 205.01 mudinno
'Choice of difficulties,' ii. 378, 378.

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— morality, v. 228.

- religion, evidences of, i. 407, 443, 458,
466; v. 228.

disturbed in his faith, v. 105.
Christianity, the highest perfection of hu-
manity, ii. 28.

- the atonement the great article of, ii.
322 n.; iv. 41, 498; v. 332.
Christians, the differences among, iv. 40.
Christ's satisfaction, ii. 322.

Church, the satisfaction of meeting at, iv.
464.

Church of England, ecclesiastical disci
pline of, v. 175, 175 n.

patronage, iii. 229.

property, confiscated, v. 38 n.
architecture, iii. 328.

Churchill, Charles, the poet, i. '95, 437 n.,
496, 514; iv. 78; v. 228.

his satire on Johnson, i. 309, 415.
Johnson's opinion of his poetry, i.

431.
Churton, Rev. Ralph, ii. 243 n.; v. 93,
199, 199 n., 371.

Cibber, Colley, i. 120, 150 n., 244, 410,
415 n.; ii. 92, 205 n., 519; iii. 44,
197 n., 214, 401, 435 n ; iv. 35, 35 ng
119; v. 131.

Cicero, his defence of the study of the law,
ii. 49 n.

- his character of Appius applied by Mr.
Burke to Johnson, v. 291 n.

Clans, order of the Scottish, iii. 112.
Clare, Robert Nugent, Lord, i. 426; ii.
123.

some account of, ii. 123 m.; iv. 168.
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, ii. 81 ;
iv. 219.

- his History,' i. 281 n.

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his style, iv. 114.

Manuscripts, iii. 310, 310 n.

Claret, characterised by Johnson, iv. 196,
252, 449.

'Clarissa Harlowe,' i. 210; iii. 408en.;
iv. 361.

- Johnson recommends an Index Re-
rum' to, i. 210.

'Clarissa Harlowe,' preface to, written by
Dr. Warburton, i. 243 n.

Clark, Alderman Richard, iv. 202 nd;ivo
148.
to 1960 ansters

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-Johnson's death-bed recommendation
of, v. 332. 345, 345 n.
Clenard, Nicholas, his Greek grammar,
iv. 351.

some account of, iv. 351 n.
Cleone,' Dodsley's tragedy of, i. 324;
iv. 352,

Cleonice," Hoole's play of, iii. 165, 165 n.
Clergy, ii. 166, 167, 171 n., 351; iii.
502; iv. 163, 462.

their preaching not sufficiently plain,
i. 381, 470.

not sufficiently acquainted with their
parishioners, i. 387.

English, ii. 476.

Scottish, ii. 141, 325, 476.

Irish, i. 391.

lax jollity of, offensive, iv. 446.

dress of, should be in character, iv. 446.
Clergyman, Addison's portrait of, iv. 446.
Johnson's model of, iv. 447.

his excellent letter to a young, iv. 324.
Clerk, Sir Philip Jennings, iv. 452.
Climate, ii. 158.

Clive, Robert, first Lord, iv. 195, 218, 275.
Mrs., ii. 357; iv. 339; v. 131.
Clothes, fine, iii. 365.

Club, Ivy-lane, formed by Johnson, i. 163,
308; v. 143, 166.

- Literary, founded by Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds, i. 490, 528; ii. 16, 17, 19, 223,
220, 470. See Literary Club.

- Boar's-head, ii. 471.

Queen's Arms, iv. 460.

- in Old-street, v. 66, 165.
Essex-head, v. 144, 145.
Eumelian, v. 304 n.

Johnson's notions of the chair of,
iv. 512.

Clubable' man, v. 145.
Coachmakers' Hall, iv. 464.

Coarse raillery, Johnson's powers of,
iv. 358.

Cobb, Mrs, i. 5 n.; ii. 61, 68, 131;
iii. 125 n., 255, 355; iv. 267.

some account of, iv. 289 n.

Cock-lane ghost, iv. 123.
Cocker's Arithmetic, ii. 369 n.

Coin of the realm, exportation of, iv. 477.
Coke, Lord, ii. 151; v. 233.

Col, island of, ii. 512, 515, 520, 527, 529

some account of, i. 72 m., 192, 192 n.;
iii. 158, 159 n. See Coulson.

Colville, Lady Dowager, in

Alexander, fourth Lord,

Lady, iii. 82 n., 9100L 181 CSA
Combermere, iii. 131, 131 noieтvпo
Commandment, the ninth, modes of placing
the emphasis on, i. 144. coboo
Commentaries on the Bible, i. 424.00
Commerce, iii. 232.

Common Prayer, Book of v. 193.200
Commons, House of, iv. 477. See Par-
liament.

Communion of Saints, v. 189, 189!!)
Community of souls, doctrine of, ii 236.
Company, v. 209. MAX 70sTixe and

cause of Johnson's fondness for, i. 116.
Compassion, Johnson's, v. 182000
Compliments, iii. 255; iv. 9, 204, 227,
320, 392.
btcfts ein
Complaints, iv. 362, 382; v. 51, 231.
Composition, iv. 325, 342, 344.food
happy moments for, n. 2752lqoz
Johnson's advice respecting, ii. 301.
his extraordinary powers of90301,
302, 342; iii. 219, 425 me to
Compositor,' the, v. 218. 90Z
Compton, Rev. James, a Benedictine
monk, v. 87, 87'n. yunon-vqoƆ
his conversion to protestantisin by the
110th Rambler, v. 87. 71799074
-Johnson's kind conduct towards him,
v. 89.
799ai silt sto
Condamine's account of the savage girl,
ii. 343.
Condescension, iv. 336.19770 bas

in, iv. 445.88 i

Conduct, 108;. 351umbe

Confession, ii.

'Confessions,' Rousseau's, ii. 12, 12 n.
Confinement, iv. 1240 míosos en
· Congé d'élire,' v. 220.) i vsi 200
Congreve, William, the poet, i. 516 ii.
86, 87 n., 97; iv. 39775den deico
- Johnson's Life of, iv. 425q10)

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Johnson's spirit of, iii. 371, 388, 428,
521; iv. 455, 455 n.
Convents, i. 354; ii. 10, 298; iii. 323.
Conversation, i. 320; iii. 236, 332, 362,

422; iv, 101, 187, 360, 365, 396, 417,
418; iv. 45, 65, 72, 178; v. 230, 231.
the happiest kind of, iii. 234.

and talk, distinction between, v. 65.
Lord Bacon's precept for, v. 121.
questioning, not the proper mode of,
iii. 362; iv. 123.

-Johnson's great powers of, iv. 142, 177,
258, 300, 300 m., 365, 368, 384, 399,
429, 484, 490; v. 200.
Conversions, ii. 108; iv. 82, 156.
Convicts, v. 209.

Convocation of the clergy, i. 476...
Conway, Lady, ii. 155 n.. བ༈ * ༈ ༈ * ༈
Conway Castle, iii. 146, 152.

Cook, Captain James, the circumnavigator,
iii. 373.i

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his 'Voyages to the South Seas,' v. 205.

Cooke, Thomas, the translator of Hesiod,
ii. 272.

his extraordinary speech on presenting
Foote to a club, ii, 273.

Cookery, ii. 269 n.

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Johnson's opinion of French, i. 481.
his affected discernment in the art of,
i141n.

-books of, should be written on philo-
sophical principles, iv. 143.

Glass's, written by Dr. Hill, iv. 144.
(Cooper, John Gilbert, author of the 'Life
of Socrates,' i. 387; iii. 514; iv. 336.
some account of, i. 387.

Coote, Sir Eyre, ii. 356.
Copy-money, in Italy, iv. 10.

of Copy-right, i. 451; ii. 207: see Literary
Property.

Corbett, Mr. Andrew, i. 29.

Corelli, the singer, iii. 217.

I Coriat, Tom, ii. 169.

Coriat, Junior,' Paterson's, ii. 169.

Cork and Orrery, Hamilton, sixth Earl of,
i. 387; iv. 34.

- Edmund, seventh Earl of, iv. 307.)
Countess of, iv. 307, 481.ja
some account of, iv. 307 n.

Corn laws, i. 189.

ir Corneille, Pierre, i. 516;iii. 4; iv. 347.
Cornish fishermen, iv. 449. 8 Àg
Corpulency, v. 936 str. 1»'ma grot

Mrs. iii. 141 n.

Coulson, Rev. John, iii. 158, 159 n., 254,
254 n.

'Council of Trent,' History of,i. 76, 1
104.
Counsellor Van, a sharp-pointed rock
on the Wye, why so called, ii. 185 n.
Counting, the good of, v. 80..
Country amusements, iv. 370.

gentlemen, ii. 341, 345, 389 n.;
iv. 336; v. 43.

life, iii. 47; iv. 28, 104, 108, 108 n.,
162, 220, 369; v. 248.

Courage, iii. 214; iv. 121, 196, 280 n.
Johnson's, iii, 173.

Court, attendants on a, described, i. 319.
of Session in Scotland, iii. 95, 167 n.
Courting the acquaintance of the great,
i. 101, 101 n. ii. 10.

Courtenay, John, esq. v. 211.

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his 6

Poetical Review' quoted, i. 33,
156, 199, 299, 334; iii, 111, 242 n.
his description of the style and economy
of Sir Joshua Reynolds's table, iii. 444.
his Poetical Review of Johnson's
literary and moral Character,' v. 445.
biographical notice of, by Sir James
Mackintosh, v. 445.

Courts of Germany, manners best learnt
at, ii. 501.

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Criticism, ii. 499; iv. 244, 245, 307.
· examples of true, ii. 90.
Croft, Rev. Herbert, iv. 321 n.

his Life of Young,' iv. 428.

- his style described by Burke, iv. 429.
his Love and Madness,' v. 65.
Johnson's opinion of his Family Dis-
courses,' v. 97.

his singular advice to a pupil, v. 205.
Croker, Rev. Temple Henry, translator of
Ariosto, i. 371 n.

Alley,' iv. 107, 107 n.

› Colonel, of Ballinagard, iv. 107 n.
Cromwell, Johnson's design of writing the
Life of, v. 120.

Noble's Memoirs' of, v. 120 n.
'Cross readings,' Caleb Whitefoord's di-
verting, v. 219.

Crouch, Mrs., v. 107 n.

Crousaz's Examen' of Pope's Essay on
Man, i. 107, 132.

Crown, power of the, ii. 165.

influence of, in parliament, i. 375.

· Crudities,' Coriat's, ii. 170 n.

Cruikshanks, Mr., the surgeon, v. 101.
Johnson's letters to, v. 125, 280.
Cuchillen's well, ii. 479.
Cucumbers, ii. 515; iv. 345.

'Cui-bono' man, iv. 484.

Cuillen, the, ii. 460, 460 n.

Cullen, Dr. William, iv. 17, 66; v. 155.
Culloden, battle of, iii. 248 n.

Cumberland, William, Duke of, iii. 248,
248 n. v. 301.

Richard, esq.,

i. 73 n.; ii. 408.

his Choleric Man,' ii. 197 n.

character of Sir Fretful Plagiary in-

tended for him, ii. 197 n.

his 'Odes,' iii. 408.

his mode of study, iv. 408.
bis Walloons,' v. 27, 27 n.
- his conversation described, v. 301 n.
anecdotes of Johnson by, v.301 n., 398.
his Lines descriptive of Johnson's cha-
racter, v. 405.

Cumming, Thomas, the quaker, ii. 331,
334, 454; iii. 234 n.; v. 92.
some account of, ii. 454 n.

Cuninghame, Sir John, iii. 68.
Cunning, ii. 439.

Cuper's Gardens, ii. 523, 523 m.kirpho

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some account of, iii. 335 n.

Darwin, Dr. Erasmus, mutual dislike be-
tween Johnson and, iii. 125 n.
Dashwood, Lady, iv. 284, 284 n.
Dating letters, a laudable habit, iv. 305 m. (
Daughters, benefit of taking them early

into company, iv. 371.

Davies, Mr. Thomas, the actor and book-
seller, character and anecdotes of, h
399, 404, 437, 476, 495 n., 496, 503; ii.
64, 65, 67, 93 n., 194, 242; iii 113,
174, 214, 215, 217 n. 219, 251 ; iv.
75, 78, 103, 340, 345; v. 469.
his Life of Garrick,' i. 18, 72; iv.C
323, 323 n.

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Davies, Mr. Thomas, Churchill's sarcasm

on his acting, i. 400 n.

his pretty wife,' i. 400 n., v. 111.)

Davis, Rev. Henry Edward, his 'Answer
to Gibbon,' iv. 136.

Dawkins, Henry, esq. iv. 500, 501 n..
Day-labourers, wages of, v. 56.

Dead, legal redress for libels on the cha-
racter of, iii. 380.

Dead language, on writing verses in, iii.
246.

Deaf and Dumb, Mr. Broadwood's aca-
demy for, iii. 94.

Deafness, Johnson's, iv. 200.
Deane, Rev. Richard,

Life of Brutes,' ii. 54.

on the Future

Death, i. 154, 322, 333; ii. 92, 109, 156,
412, 420; iii. 10, 92, 519; iv. 2, 153,
169, 240; v. 27, 32, 106, 133, 151,
154, 165, 177, 197.

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· reflections on a violent, i. 322.
Southwell's stanzas upon, iii. 143 n.
preparation for, iii. 10.

Death-bed resentments, ii. 463.

repentance, Dr. Wishart on, ii. 476.
Debates in Parliament, Johnson's share in
them, i. 87, 121, 122, 127; v. 318.
Debt, misery of being in, v. 29.
Debtor, proverbial wretchedness of, v. 29.
Debts, i. 337; iii. 491.

Decay of the mental faculties, iii. 367.
'Decline and Fall,' Gibbon's, iii. 335.
Dedications, ii. 213, 512; iii. 477.

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and Prefaces, by Johnson, and remarks
on, i. 135, 151, 157, 243, 287, 305,
307, 343, 348, 356, 372, 476; ii. 21,
24, 26, 44, 193, 213, 512; iii. 477.
Definition, ii. 282 n.
Definitions, i. 7 n., 60 n., 280, 280 n., ii.
269 n., 282; iii. 81 n., iv. 99, 178,
186 n., 210, 214.

De Foc, Daniel, ii. 157; iv. 123.

his Robinson Crusoe,' iv. 123.
invents the story of Mrs. Veal's ghost,
ii. 157, 157 n.

Degeneracy of the human race disputed,

ii. 205, 205 n.

De Groot, Isaac, a relative of Grotius,
Johnson's kind interference in behalf
of, iii. 487.
Deist, ii. 8.

Delany, Dr., his Observations on Swift,'

ii. 462; iv. 105, 406.

Delap, Rev. Dr., i. 514; iii. 519, 519 n.
Delay, danger of, i, 323.

Delicacy, iv. 373, 375.

Democritus, iv. 478 n.

'Demonax' of Lucian, curiously applicable
to Johnson, iv. 401 n.

Demosthenes, i. 122, 126 n.; ii. 199.
Dempster, George, esq., i. 418, 448, 455,
456 n.; iv. 160.

Derby, china manufactory at, iv. 11.
Derby, Rev. J., iii. 477.

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- curious anecdote of, iii. 477 n.

Derrick, Samuel, esq., i. 95, 394, 404, 467,
468; ii. 348, 464; iv. 239; v. 70, 111 n.
some account of, i. 394 n.

- his Letters,' ii. 348.

Descriptions, seldom correspond with reali-
ties, ii. 355, 372; v. 76.
'Deserted Village,' ii. 7, 224.

Desmoulins, Mrs., i. 35, 52; ii. 139; iv.
77, 77 m., 158, 231, 243, 251 n., 288,
333, 466; v. 115, 146.

Despotic governments, iv. 141.
Devaynes, John, esq., v. 170.

Devonshire, William Cavendish, third
Duke of, iv. 38.

- two, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in
imitation of Johnson's style of con-
versation, iv. 169, 514, 514 n.
Diary, Johnson's, ii. 161, 288.

the utility of keeping one, i. 448; ii.
204; iv. 83; v. 56.
Dibdin, Mr. Charles, ii. 114.
Dick, Sir Alexander, ii. 283; iii. 96, 491;'
v. 151, 155, 156, 156 n.

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- his letter to Johnson on the good effect
produced in Scotland by his Journey,'
iii. 466.

'Dictionnaire Portatif' of L'Avocat, re-
commended, v. 224.

'Dictionary of the English Language,'
Johnson's, i. 152, 156, 160, 162, 244,
246, 247, 248, 257, 263, 264, 269,
271, 277, 287, 314, 368, 456; ii. 133,-
146, 192, 194, 196, 243, 282, 325,
361, 499; iii. 322, 477, 479, 526;
iv. 210, 257, 279, 336, 538.

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first published, i. 277.

Wilkes's jeu d'esprit on, i. 284.
Garrick's epigram on, i. 284.
-Johnson's profits by, i. 288.

- epitome of, i. 291.

- felicity with which the examples are
selected, v. 179.